Show Notes
For our penultimate episode, I wanted to visit someone running a version of that experiment in a somewhat unexpected place: the media business. Dan Shipper runs a website that reviews new technology alongside a product lab that’s building it — and for some time now I’ve wondered what it’s like to work in a place like that.
Today Every is a publication about AI that draws attention across the industry. At the same time, Every is also a product studio. But AI is changing the way that the company writes. Every has tried to clone the taste of its editor in chief, Kate Lee, by collecting a dataset of 30,000 of her historical edits, using it to build a copy-editing agent, and back-testing it against her past work.
More controversially, Shipper told me that far more writers are integrating AI into their workflows than will admit it publicly. "I think there is a real dirty secret right now, which is that almost every writer is using it,” he said. “Just, most of them are not saying so."
Plus, Platformer fellow Ella Markianos joins at the top of the show to discuss this week's news about AI and jobs.
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